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San Lorenzo Valley Art Tour

by Christine Barrington | May 15, 2023 | All Talk, Arts & Culture, Christine Barrington, Local, Program, Talk of the Bay

May 20 & 21 launches the 2nd annual San Lorenzo Valley Art Tour featuring dozens of artists from a multitude of genres who will welcome guests into their studios. Artists Mick Singer and Raf Strudly will share details of this exciting new free event taking place...

Veteran’s Transition Center of California

by Christine Barrington | May 15, 2023 | All Talk, Christine Barrington, Local, Talk of the Bay

The Veteran’ Transition Center of California is the largest organization serving veterans on the central coast. Since 1996, this non-profit has operated on historic Ft Ord land to provide homeless Veterans and their families with housing, food, clothing, case...

Teens at Santa Cruz Boys and Girls Club Find Refuge from Life’s Pressures

by Rachel Goodman | May 14, 2023 | All Talk, Education, Local, Wellness

Teens are undergoing a mental health crisis, with cases of depression and anxiety reaching epidemic proportions nationwide, especially after the Pandemic. In Santa Cruz, the Boys and Girls Club has been a safe refuge from the stresses teens face, while still coping...

Impact of Floods on Elkhorn Slough

by Rachel Goodman | May 14, 2023 | All Talk, Local, Outdoors, Science

This is a feature created by Elnaz Sarbar Boczek , an intern from Cabrillo College Elkhorn Slough is one of the largest estuaries in California that provides essential habitat for over 700 species, from sea otters to birds. This slough is part of the 10 percent of...

Kyle Robertson and Jeanne Proust of the Center for Public Philosophy on philosophy in daily life

by Len Beyea | May 11, 2023 | All Talk, Arts & Culture, Education, Len Beyea, Local, Talk of the Bay

Jeanne Proust has studied Humanities, Philosophy and Visual Arts in Bordeaux, Berlin, and Paris. She has been teaching Philosophy for the last 13 years in the U.S. Her PhD dissertation (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) focused on the pathologies of...

Writers Patrice Vecchione and Tania Romanov speak of walking and writing

by Suki Wessling | May 10, 2023 | All Talk, Arts & Culture, Arts & Literature, Local, Outdoors, Sex, Gender & Family, Suki Wessling, Talk of the Bay, The Babblery, Wellness

"If you were a landscape": Women walking, creating, and becoming This new podcast from The Babblery, featured on Talk of the Bay, explores the importance of walking in the writing lives of two women, Patrice Vecchione and Tania Romanov. Host Suki Wessling leads them...

KSQD at Earthday 2023 -Wishes for the Planet

by Rachel Goodman | May 8, 2023 | All Talk, Local

Courtesy of Hope Forpeace

Celebrating Hope: The Queer Youth Leadership Awards

by Suki Wessling | May 4, 2023 | All Talk, Arts & Culture, Education, Local, Politics, Sex, Gender & Family, Suki Wessling, Talk of the Bay

On Talk of the Bay, host Suki Wessling speaks with Stuart Rosenstein, Director of the Queer Youth Task Force of Santa Cruz County and co-chair of the 26th Annual Queer Youth Leadership Awards, along with two awards nominees, Nadine Said and Sion Erkiletian. Nadine is...